What's it like to tell the MMA mixed martial arts champion of the world that basically you

want to fight him and destroy him?

Well, I'm about to find out in this episode, but even more importantly, one of the most

important concepts I wrote about in my book Skip the Line was this concept I always use

this technique I always use when I want to learn something very fast.

It's a great technique, it works phenomenally well, and I call it plus minus equals.

The idea is, if you want to learn something, let's say you want to get better at tennis

or you want to get better at physics, you find a plus, someone who could teach you or

coach you or whatever, someone who's vastly superior knowledge and ability, you find

a minus, someone, and this is not a negative thing, but you find someone you could teach

because as Albert Einstein said, you don't truly understand something unless you can explain

it simply to another person.

And then you find equals, and that's people who are on the same path and journey of improvement

as you, and roughly around the same level, and you kind of learn with each other or compete

with each other or exchange notes with each other.

And I find this a useful tool, not only of course in sports or educational learning, but

in business, like when I, the very first time I became an entrepreneur, I had a company

that made websites for other companies, and very quickly I got to know the CEOs and founders

of the other companies, particularly in New York City, that were doing the same thing.

And we would run into each other all the time, we would run into each other going in and

out of clients' offices while we were competing for business, we would run into each other

parties, we would call each other up and have lunch or dinner sometimes just to compare

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